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St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
Up WITH THE PEOPLE

| The foreign placards are even more inter
esting. Arm! Burn Kill. Destroy ~
/ says one. 'Be ready for the universal reyo
lution," says another. 'The only logic i,
that of force. 1t has been used against us
for centuries; now let us (the people, make
use of it" Red flags are hung over the stage
red ribbons are worn in the coat lapels OF
the men, and as scarfs by the women, and
every man and woman present carries a red
handkerchief.
You should see one of these meetings. At
most Of them the doors stand open and all
are welcome, because there really are no
secrets, and there is no sincerity among the
managers, who want every ten cents that may
by any chance be contributed by whatever
stranger happens in. There are a dozen
women in the rOom-foreign women in awk-
ward, ungraceful attire that is made to look
as masculine as possible. There are hun
bred men, They are Russians, Bohemians
Hungarians, Frenchmen, Poles and Germans,
the Bohemians and Poles being in the ma
JOrlty. Nearly all are bearded and are dressed
like workingmen. They listen intently to the
speakers, but have a queer way of talking
back to them One man will rise and inter
rupt a speaker for five minutes; another will
leap to his feet and, turning to the rest. will
assure them that he personally knows that
what the orator is saying is true One thing
is certain to set the whole audience to groan-
ing and yelling at speaker. That is mlldness
or prudent advice, or talk of postpOning ac-
ton for future years. An orator who urges
anything except almost immmediate violence
is certain to excite intense Misrepresentation
But the use they make of their red handker-
chiefs is the strangest thing in an Anarchist
meeting. You don't see one handkerchief as
they sit listening to their jawsmith until sud-
denly he asks How will you give the signal
for the general Slaughter" or he SAYS: In
what way will you know one another on the
day of the great reyolution?' Instantly from
every masculine breast-pocket and from
around every feminine throat red Sanguin-
airy big handkerchief is pulled to be
brandished in the air with crazy energy and
enthusiasm. 1t would make your blood run
cold to hear them talk of their plans One
plan that have heard is the seizure of the
arsenals. where they are all to arm and then
capture the elevated roads and shoot down at
the people and the militia in the streets.
Justus Schwab used to be the leading
revolutionist; now it is Johann Most Most
is notwithstanding man with his hair on
end and a dark beard all over his face. He
was sent to Jail a year ago for melting the
Anarchists to murder, and he cut such a
ridiculous figure when the police pulled him
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
FOOD SUPPLY OF PARIS.
Four Thousand Tons of Horse, Mule and
Ass Meat Eaten.

Ass Meat Eaten.
Theslatest annual report on the food supply
Of the population of Paris presents some
points of general interest On the average it
appears that every inhabitant of the French
capital ate rather more than half pound of
butchers meat day during the past year,
and in addition to this daily ration of some
five or six ounces of other descriptions of ami
NAL food, including fish, poultry, and game,
butter, cheese, and eggs. The average is, we
believe, appreciably below that of London
but is, nevertheless, fairly adequate allow
ance. Perhaps the most curious item in the
annual bill of fare of the Parisians is that
which informs us that last year they con-
sumed no less than four thousand tons of
''horse, mule and ass meat" This is nearly
nine million pounds and represents rather
more than nine days supply Of butchers "
meat to the entire population of the capital
Every year that has passed since the great
siege of 1871 h1ppophagy has been increasing
in Paris, and there appears every likelihood
of continuous increase in the consumption
of this class of viands. Possibly not all the
horses that are killed in London streets go to
feed the cats and dogs, but in spite of several
efforts to introduce horse beef as an article of
diet we have never taken kindly to it, In
sausages, German saveloys, andin one or two
other forms, horse is no doubt eaten here;
but ifso it is certainly only because we do not
know it.-Dublias Nation.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

has to do behind the bar. He is q st,1u,.+
/ big fellow, Of the build and cut Of = German
i"D'iei, WIN massy head of light hair down
~ lis shoulders and big. soft, yellow befrCA
Ills pace Is always patronized by long-hai,pdf
il'l-eled foreigners, who have impOrtedthef
ecllp ol 'he crueltles and tvrannies of Eur,nn
|" TINS country in order to revenge them
serves here for what people are suffering over
there On the tables are all the papers So
'Ie'lS printed III the cellars and UNDERGROUND
,''''il'S VI me ret"rmers of Europe They
Dear such titles as The Reeo7utiou The Torch
an" o'o'a' Tile Social Earthquoke, Blood ami
F"F Reet"ge, Tie Earth for Nan and 71o
e""@ Of the People. The Anarchists who oro
''''e ~ le''d llock to this saloon to see these
papers, for they would not buy them for
themselves that would be depriying them
serves OF beer As they read they order
peer ana line Schwab's pockets with silver
5" that OF late he has EMPLOYED q bartender
ana often sits by his own table like q gept1..
man Anarchist watching the till and TALKING
'"c KIM "1 lunacy that his customers want
ION thlnk Tor minute that all the An
ar'hlStS are lnslncere and are MAKING q lazy.
HVlhg out OF the world, like Scbu,ah and
Most Many are terribly in earnest =. that i
terribly diseased inmind. They really think
'hat the thing to do is to destroy all the men
ana women who wear tidy clothes and lead
decent lawful lives and they will lay down
'helr own lives and fight like tigers if they
ever get the order to do SO. The only mercy
Is that they are few and have not got the
sympathy Of the honest toilers When the
Gay snail come, if it ever does they will en-
deavor to put their bloody plans into execu-
1loh Ike tigers let loose in the streets. but
lheE VIII be more easy to deal with and toclub
INTO submission than the vast army of Grim.
mas and vagabonds in New York who will
seize such an occasion for lootins the stores
ana attacking the people. In this horde Of
loaters Is New Works greatest danger II *
estimated that they number between 80 ono '
and $1,000 in that city, and a time Of riot
would be grand holiday and carnival sea-
soi LOT 'llem' JULIAN RALPH
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

most cheerful franknesS, of their hopes of see
ing the skies lighted by the fires of rich mems
houses at1ame and thes streets slippery with the
blood Of all who wear clean shirts and save a
dollar away from the beer saloons. But only
the most morbidlytimid folks are afraid Of
them; indeed, am only supposing that there
are such folks, for | have never vet seen a
New Yorker who expressed the slightest I'M
easiness concerning them. Detectives are
members of all their groups and never
meeting is held or a movement made that
the police do not know it instantly. The
Anarchists have no idea who the police are
who are in their secrets and never will know
until they attempt some such behavior as
that with which Chicago was disgraced last
year. New Workers think that no such scenes
can possibly be witnessed there, for no I'M
ruly crowds are allowed to gather in their
city. They are instantly dubbed away as
fire in carpet is stamped out-and without
unruly crowds there can be no Anarchism,
except Of the mouth.
Mouth Anarchism New Workers do not
mind. They let the beer-maniacs hold all
the meetings they please, and they never were
more displeased with any public servant
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

York is quite as fond Of free speech as Boston
was of old. Let everybody meet and talk. saws
the esprit of old Diedrich knickerbocker, New
Works patron saint; talk is cheap, and gives
relief to unruly spirits and broo,ling souls.
The principal Anarchist society in New
York and this country is THE Interna-
tional.' as it is called, or, to give it all its
title. The International Working PEOPLES
Association 1t was established in Europe,
and Is great deal stronger and more danger
Gus there than here. There the people have
real grievances; in some countries such as
almost justify Anarchlsm-as in Russia, for
instance. 1.-THE trade of preaching Anarch-
ism is unhealthy over there for ours and cow
ards and for loafers who have no real belief in
their teachings but want to be notorious and
to pose as leaders, and to make the fools
support them in idleness. Therefore these
have come to New York, where there is a
large admixture of ignorance and folly
among the peasant immigrants from certain
European nations, and where they can pose
and talk without danger of death or the
worse fate of being shipped to Siberia to work
in the mines with a cat-and-nine-tails sus-
pended over them until they die They do
llOt say THAI lliel Cttlle because they dld not
dare to stay in Europe like Prince Krapot-
kline and other genuine Anarchists, but they
explain that this American field is the ripest
for their work, and that here they will edr-
cate the people and lead the revolution that
is to sweep the world
The Internationals have no passwords,
grips or secret signs. Each member is pro-
yided with blood-red card, on which is
printed a number. That number is his name
and title in the organization. All that is
asked of any one who wishes to be a mem
beris that he shall express a desire to massa-
ere the decent population, divide the wealth
that escapes the flames, and form society
over again, with the Anarchist orators on
top to hold the offices and enrich themselves |
No | am going too fast. That last about the |
offices is not what they say; it is merely what |
they mean. For the present it is only nee
essary that the members should buy beer in |
certain shops, worship ard pay dues to GER
tain mouth-workers (or '.jawsmiths," as DR..
McGlynn calls them), and cheer and yell at
the end of every sentence in every speech.
1t costs only ten cents a month to be mem-
Der, but this is not exacted. Those who are
too poor or economical to pay anything do
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

nibal, anu iiic skunk away among his COM
panions.
Seventy years ago Nathaniel Macon,
Speaker of Congress, uttered the sentiment
that "bad roads and fst-fighting made the
best militia in the world
Such was the conception of liberty in a
state of society little above savage times.
To-day upon the graves of silent soldiery
the education of flowers commences another
era and men need no longer be animals to
appreciate the liberty that respects the lib
erty of others.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
THE NEW SOUTH.
VIM. PERRY BROWN.

Thou, who of old didst dominate
On battlefield, IN council hall,
The nations love, the nations hate,
Sun crowned, though robed in the dark pal
Of slavery and of caste;
Thou, who, baptized in blood and fire,
From out thine ashes didst arise
Above the torture and the mire f
OF thine unfatkomed destinies,
Mourn not, veil not thy past!
That past is dead, yet from its grave,
Pregnant with deathless memories,
A newer life hath risen to save
A race made mightier by the ties
Uniting sons with sires.
And thou Renowned that sittest low,
Bathing thy feet in summer seas,
Mantling thy brow in summer snow,
KIndling with newborn industries
Thy blood-quenched altar fires;
Rising DER worn-out loves or hates
Buried meath Gods all-wise DEGREES,
Unto the nobler life that waits
Thy progress down the centuries,
Thy triumph time hath wrought
Thine open hand is grasped by hands
That clutched thee fercely on the field;
From throats that hurled the stern COM
mand
Down hostile lines kind accents yield
The welcome thou hast sought.
Through all thine upward march see
Divine monitions of 6. hand,
Molding the gem of things to be
From out the bridge of signs that SPAWNED
Thine earlier destiny;
Preserving to thy sons the fame
Of all thy past inviolate;
Blending thy childrens future name
With all that makes nation great
In love and liberty.
ATLANTA Constitution
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
Don't Like Reporters.

Mrs. Hettie Green, the Wall-street woman
of many millions, is very particular in Sc
Letting the modest room she occupies in a
boarding house. Her first question to the
landlady is, care there any reporters in the
house," If not, she inquiries, Have any
reporters ever lived in the house," If such
a disaster has occurred to the landlady, Mrs,
Green cares not to hear when it happened
the mere fact that reporters have bad a hab-
itation in the house is enough. She says,
"Good-day," and is gone.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
Rounds up the Chickens.

Charles Deubler, of Dawson, Ga, has q
shepherd dog that drives his chickens up at
night. About shutdown the dog begins his
rounds over the premises, and never stops
until every fowl is driven up and is in the
hen-house. If a chicken shows dls-
position not to retire to its roosting place, the
dog drives it in the hen-house ana
stands guard at the door until the chicken
takes perch on the roost.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
OLD SCREW-PlN.
The Portraits Made BY Mischievous
Johnny Out of Tool Chest.

Master Johnny played truant one day anc
his father, a carpenter, locked him up in his
shop for punishment. 1t was not long be-
fore Johnny had all the odds and ends OF
the tool-chest laid out on the bench (Nos. /
and p, and his fertile ingenuity wrought
out, in no time, what is developed in 3, 7
and5. His father returned at noon, just as his
hopeful had finished the latter under which
he wrote in chalk, "Ole Screw-pin." It hap.
pened that this latter was a striking Likeness
of the sire and climax ensued Did he
thrash him? Oh no, he only wiped up the
shavings with Johnny.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04


divide nations and States into manifold con
Trajectory religions, and to diversity societ'
with sacerdotal classes and add to it pageant
like funerals, monument raisings and martyr
doms
War is the great game of hazard between
life and death.
Therein man, for the evanescent principle
OF patriotism or control, offers his life tran
gully or passionately up to death and ceases
to be, that his people or views may continue
to be-
War is, therefore, the biggest dignity o.
life, absorbing the admiration of all othel
distinctions, religion included. The impres
siveness of death is not equal to the impress
siveness of the courage which considers it a
trifie compared with weak or ignominious
living.
The prize or penalty of death can only be
postponed by the cowardly and the prudent;
to them, as to the brave and rash, it is an
evanescent reprieve. Not even relinquishing
war would save human society from dying
simultaneously by pest, famine or earth
quake. The components of our breath and
food are SO delicately mixed of elixir and
poison that the extinction of the race and OF
creation itself grows simpler as a proposition
to the naturalist than to the theologian.
At the brink of the American Revolution
the idea first burst upon the discoverer of
oxygen that animal life was limited to the
supply of oxygen from vegetable life, and
that all vegetable life depended upon the
lungs Of animal life for the carbon which
created tree, leaf and grass.
Thus correlative, dependent, suspended be-
tween energy and humiliation, life has the
buoyancy and forgetfulness of its own sell
hshness, preferring this moment to any
other, yet in its intellectual purposes stalking
life itself, with the probabilities of pain, cap
hyity, disease and mutilation.
Much has been written in all ages upon the
moral superiority of submitting to that of
resisting and conquering, but the trump OF
war never fails to summon all conditions
and the tribunal of war often alters the
whole personality of history.
The earliest poem of Europe has the theme
of war; the master men of the present age
emerged from warfare; the oldest monarch
IN Europe went to war in his boyhood, and
py war crowned bis hoary age with Caesars
circlet.
Ine man who stole France kept his
plunder till he was forced into foreign war,
and then ne lost it all. His son chose for
the held Of glory poor obscure and dis
tant Zoe, and SO the dynasty of Napoleon
perlshed on negro's spear. Juarez and
Diaz IN Mexico, Wolseley and Sheridan, Grant
and Won Moltke, Lincoln and Disraeli, else
where arose or confirmed their flames by
war-like hazard
War, indeed, is the best thing to divinein-
terposition in the adjustment Of races and
periods allother forms Of change are slow
and uncertain, butthe arbitrament of battle
has the celebrity of the oracle and the thunder
bolt.
We saw in one day the crown of Germany
pass from the family which had held it five
hundred years. Inanother day we saw eleven
hun dred years of Moslem rule on the Medi-
terranean brought to full stop and the Rus
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
Of Some Use After All.

If every earthquake caused springs of water
to break forth in the desert, and veins OF
gold-bearing quartz to project from the ear1n'
as the recent Mexican disturbances are Re-
ported to have done earthquakes would bes
welcomed in some sections.-New Orleans
Tines Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
A Trif1e Sarcastic.

Miss shawsgarden (of St. Louis)-Your size
is No 5, is it not, Miss Breezy?
Miss Breezy (of Chicago)-Ye'es, l may
find No. desirable at this season of the
year, but when | have occasion to refer to
the melodrama don't say ''draymy."
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
THE ANARCHISTS.
MEN WHO PROPOSE TO REFORM
SOCIETY BI FIREAND BLOOD.
They, However, Devote Themselves for the
Present to Wind and Beer-Scenes at
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Their Leaders
Dogs With More Bark Than Bite.

The Anarchists in
New York city and
suburbs are supposed
to number a b out
1000. They hold fire.
quent meetings, one
Il week for each
group and at these
meetings theydelight
in talking ri g h t
ont ~ u-i+I +Io 80
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

not need to do so. If they are smart they
mount the platforms instead and talk and
collect the fees from the others, or they write
pamphlets and have them printed in red ink
and sell them for cent or five cents EACH
Although it is claimed that there are
1000 Anarchists in New York, their
meetings are almost the slenderest ever held
there FIR n fifty to one hundred and fifty
persons is lie average attendance at an ordi-
nary geneSsl meeting of Anarchists and on
grand occasions, such as the celebration of
the murder of the good and pure Archbishop
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04
DECORATION DAY.

Thoughts Suggested by the Mem
Dry of the Heroic Dead.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

out, all dirt and cohwebs, from under his
female friends bed, that it would be easy
for any lazy and glib foreigner who wants to
step into his shoes to do so. But before he
had his plumes cut his head office in William
street was regular throne-room. 1t is the
Office of The Faeiheit, weekly revolutionary
paper. The printers worked whenever there
was no one there to set up the beer; when
they had beer they sat around a table and
talked like dangerous maniacs. In the room
were some two-dollar condemned army mus
kets that Most used to sell for S. piece in
accordance with his teaching that every man
and woman should arm themselves There
were, and I suppose are yet, some clock
work Internal machines, some cartridges for
holding dynamite and some circulars on sale
telling how to make and use dynamite, how
to talk the approved lunacy OF the Anarch-
lists, how to shoot and burn and all the rest.
Long-haired lunatics from all over the world
came there to see Most and pat HIM on the
back and tell him he was great man.
Schwab is losing great deal of his
St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

of Paris. in the last Commune. or the VOL
come to John Most on his return from Jail.
the highest number, about 800. is reached.
The meetings are usually held in the Bowery,
a place delightful to the soul of Anarchists.
because there are five times as many beer
saloons and idle foreigners whoncither work.
speak English, nor understand our iDstitu-
tons, on the Bowcry as on any other street
on this hemisphere. On the walls are pla-
cards, mostly lettercd in strange foreign
characters. One, in English, reads like this :
Mower County transcript., 1887-07-27
The Three Elements.

No truer words were ever written than
these from an exchange: every grow
ing and ambitious town is composed of
three elements. Those who work patri-
otically, vigorously and intelligently for
it's advancement; those who are in a state
of apathy or Indifference, and those who
take curious delight in discouraging
the efforts of others by ridicule, by per-
sistent denial that any progress can or
has been accomplished and by boasting
of every other town besides their own.
The last class are called croakers, but
they are really something worse, for their
opposition does rot arise simply from de-
spondency, but from that unenviable
spirit which will neither act itself moi
suffer others to act. <= s.&-
Mower County transcript., 1887-07-27
Powell for Governor

The Democrats of Ohio held their state
convention at Cleveland last week Thurs.
day, and nominated Thomas E. Powell
for governor Foran, the working mems
candidate did not receive but very
small support in the convention, and
Campbell, the third aspirant, was laid
out on account of his hostility towards
the administration. There is not much
enthusiasm among the Democrats over
the ticket, and the feeling among the
workmen is very bitter towards Powell
and his nomination, in the face of this
feeling, IS taken to mean that Democrats
do not want the assistance of the work
1ngmen. The ticket is considered very
weak one, and not much hopes OF its
election is entertained,
Mower County transcript., 1887-07-27
A Tribute To Austin.

Mr.. B. B. Herbert. of Rcd Wing, was
one of the delegates to the railroad meet
ing, held here last week, and in his report
of the meeting. pays Austin very nice
compliment. We clip the following from
the Red WingiDaily Republican:
The visit to Austin was made extreme
ly pleasant. Private carriages were pro-
vided by the citizens and q drive Of an
hour around the city, between the after
noon and evening sessions, given to. the
visiting delegates. Austin is situated on
the Cedar and Turtle rivers. The Cedar
river affords excellent water f3MsE R33M%er: and
Aouring mills The city is enjoying
quite boom at present, owing to the re-
of the Milwaukee road, which has num-
Der of branches centering here. The new
buildings IN course Of erection the pres
ent year will number over 100, among
these are several very fine business blocks.
Austin has one of the finest court houses
in the state, built at cost of $65OOO, an
honor to the country, and the county does
not owe . cent for the same. The outer
walls are of St. Louis pressed brick, the
architectural design IL most pleasing, and
from the cupola grand view of the sur
rounding country is eiven. Austin nest
les IN a grove, on the banks of the Two
beautiful streams named, and what es-
peclally attracts the eye of the visitor,
next to the beauty OF the new business
blocks, is the attractiveness of the su-
Duran homes. The evergreen farm of
1000 acres, running right up to the city,
with its shady drives, along bowers of
evergreens. and the fields divided by
evergreen trees, the beautiful meadows
and pastures with herds of fine Holsteln
cattle, will not soon be forgotten by the
visitor.